Improvement in tables for making wainscoting



JOHN W.'BOUGHTON 8L E. C. HUSSEY. Improvement in Tables for Making Wainscoting.

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4 21 zwef Patented May 16,187i.

. Witnesses JOHN BOUGHTONAND-ELISHA CHAS; HUSSEY, OENEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 114,907, dated May 16, 1871. l

IMPROVEMENT lN. TABLES FOR'MAKING WAINSCOTING.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

-We, J OHN W. Boncnrron and ELISHA CHAS. Hos SEY, both of the city, county, and State of New York,

known as portable wainscoting'and floor-covering; and

It consists in the peculiar construction of a table of ordinary height, supported on a suitable frame, having a top formed of thick plank, preferably made'in nar-' row strips and bolted through, presenting a solid surface, and a face preferably convex in cross-section,

said top being'provided with clamps and set-screws at the ends to confine-the material horizontally, and with clamping-rails at the sides, which hold the ends of the slats from rising, while a guide is provided for the edge, enabling the slats v to be selected, and the imperfect piecesrejected before gluing, said top being also provided withlongitudinal and transverse grooves or gains at suitable'distances apart, which receive removable bars,-on which the material, when glued, is lifted and removed to dry, all as hereinafter set forth. Figure 1 is a plan view of thetable with a portion of the side bar B removed and arranged for the making of floor-covering of the width of thirty-six inches;

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same; and Figure 3, a plan view of the table with the side bars removed, and-adapted to the making of r-ibands or other long pieces of the covering.

Figure 4 is a detached position of the bed and one of the side rails, showing a device for tightening the rail upon the ends of 'the slats.

The manner of using'our improved table is as follows table,.and the space between the clamps b I) b'b'entirely filled.

In placing them across the table one'end of the v series of slats is received under the rebate a of the side rail B, which rail serves both to hold them d'own and to form a guide to keep the ends even.

The opposite ends are also held under the rail B, which, instead of having a rebate, is plain, but elevated about the thickness of the slats above the surface of the table. This enables the operator to remove, by sliding out under this rail, any defective slats. The edges of the slats, being smooth and true,

are then brought into close contact by driving up the clamps b b l) b and fixing them by means of setscrews, which hold'them.

The cloth or canvas which forms the back of the material when completed is then spread on by passing a roller, on which it is wound, from one end of the table to the other, glue being applied in advance of it by an attendant.

The cloth being pressed closely upon the glue to insure adhesion at all points, the side rails B B are removed, and the two attendants, starting one at each .end of the table, simultaneously raise the two lifting bars at d, and thewainscoting is thereby lifted from the table and laid on a rack to dry. 1

The bars being returned and the side rails replaced, the work of forming another sheet progresses in the same manner as before.

A narrower width of wainscoting is formed by changing one of the side rails to the position shown in dotted lines of fig. 3. I

The rails are held by books 0, fig. 1, projecting downward from the under side, which enter slotted plates f in the table, and are engaged by a slight -longitudinal movement of the rail, enabling them to be easily detached when required. They may also be fastened on by hinges or by inclined bars f, fig. 4, in which one end is pivoted to the side of the. table aril the other to the rail, and the tightening effected'by an endwisev movement of the side rail in the direction of the arrow. The equivalent of this would be that of affixing to the table and rail projections with their contiguous faces so inclined that a slight cudwise'motion would bring them more closely together. By these'and equivalent means great pressure can-be brought upon the ends of the slats, holding them firmly in place.

For some purposes it is necessary to make the floorcovering in strips of considerable length, as of the length of the table, which is usually from ten to sixteeu feet. This is done by removing the liftingwbars d d and filling. the grooves which they occupy. with pieces g g, fig. 3, which, by the removal of similar strips, It It, fig. 1, admits of the use of .transverse lift-' ing-bars 7t 7t, fig. 3, when the slats are placed longitudinally and the process performed in other respects, as before described.

The side rails are covered with zinc on the side exposed, so that the glue will not adhere to them.

The table may,-if preferred, be made with intere stices left between the strips of plank which compose the lid, in the form of a rack.

We prefer to form the top of the table slightly convex in cross-section, so that the'slats-will be bent by the tightening of the side rails, by which the natural elasticity of the Wood serves'to hold them more firmly in place, and thus prevented from bulging up in the center.

This table forms a very complete apparatus for arranging and gluing the various widths and lengths of 1. A table constructed as herein described, with longitudinal and transverse grooves to receive the liftingbars [Z (Z It It, and provided with the clamps b bl) b t and clamping side rails B B, combined and arranged substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. 111 a table for manufacturing portable Wainscoting, the transversely curved surface of the table A, combined and operating in connection with the side rails 13 B, with or without the rebate c, substantially .as herein shown and described.

J OHN \V. BOUGHTON. ELISHA GHAS. HUSSEY.

\Vitnesses:

KATE N. J ONES, WHEELER. W. PHILLIPS. 

